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AN OVERVIEW OF THE REPORT
Part I. Background: South Carolina Child Care
Chapter I: The South Carolina Infrastructure
Child care in South Carolina is described in this chapter using the model of a comprehensive state child care system presented by Sharon Lynn Kagan and Nancy E. Cohen in Not By Chance: Creating an Early Care and Education System for America's Children. The model includes five components which form the infrastructure of a child care system: governance, planning, and accountability; facility licensing, enforcement, and program accreditation; funding and financing; professional development and licensing; and parent information and involvement.
Chapter II: Quality And Availability of South Carolina Child Care
The quality and availability of child care services in South Carolina are discussed, using information from national and state sources. This background information about what is already known regarding child care services will assist in better understanding the survey results.
Part II. Survey of the Child Care Workforce
Chapter III: Child Care Centers
This chapter reports on the findings from phone interviews with 916 child care center directors about quality of the workforce and availability of services. Data are presented by regulatory status (licensed, registered); ABC status (ABC, non-ABC); ABC level (1, 2, 3); and type of program or sponsor (for-profit, church, school-based, Head Start, non-profit). Much of these more detailed data are Appendix IV.
Data are reported for the six types of child care personnel in centers. Relationships between some of the quality indicators (education, retention, etc.) are presented. Similar data for each county are reported in Appendix 2.
Chapter IV: Child Care Homes
This chapter reports on the findings from phone interviews with 1,094 child care home providers about quality of the workforce and availability of services. Data are presented by regulatory status (licensed, registered); ABC status (ABC, non-ABC); ABC level (1, 2); and type of program (family, group). Data are reported for the providers and their assistants. Similar data for each county are reported in Appendix 3.
Chapter V: Self-Arranged/In-Home Providers
This chapter reports on the findings from phone interviews with 430 self-arranged/in-home providers, the majority of whom care, or recently cared, for the child of a family member. The quality and availability of this informal type of care is described.
Summary
Chapter VI
Information with respect to quality and availability from the three previous chapters is summarized.
Appendices
Appendix 1: Methodology
This appendix presents text and tables to describe how the survey of child care providers was conducted to ensure that 1) those responding were representative of all providers in the state (in their category), and 2) questions were understood and answered by providers to the best of their ability.
The tables show, by county, the number of providers who were called and the number and percent who responded. These data are given for the total number of providers, and for providers by regulatory status and size of facility.
Appendix 2: Child Care Centers - Guide to Appendix 2 and County Data Tables
The county-level data presented in this appendix are similar to the state-level data presented in Chapter III. More extensive data for some of the largest counties are also available from the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. To better understand these data, Chapter III should be read first. The first page of the appendix offers guidance for reading the data tables.
Appendix 3: Child Care Homes - Guide to Appendix 3 and County Data Tables
The county-level data presented in this appendix are similar to the state-level data presented in Chapter IV. More extensive data for some of the largest counties, although not included in this report, are available from the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. To better understand these data, Chapter IV should be read first. The first page of the appendix offers guidance for reading the data tables.
Appendix 4: Child Care Centers - Expanded State Analyses Tables
These state-level data expand on the center data presented in Chapter III. Chapter III tables are limited, to some extent, to reporting total numbers. Appendix 4 tables expand the analyses by reporting data by regulatory status, ABC status, ABC level, and type of program or sponsor.
Appendix 5: County Lists of ABC Child Care Facilities - Enhanced & Unenhanced
Two lists are in this appendix based on November 1, 2000 records at the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, ABC Child Care Program. The first list includes ABC Level 2 (enhanced) centers, group child care homes, and family child care homes. "Enhanced" facilities also include ABC Level 3 centers, those accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
"Unenhanced" facilities are included on the second list. These centers, group homes, family homes, in-home, and self-arranged providers have agreed to be part of the ABC voucher system and accept children with a voucher, but have not agreed to meet higher standards than those required by the South Carolina Department of Social Services, Licensing and Regulatory Services.
Appendix 6: Definitions of Child Care Center Personnel
These personnel titles and definitions refer to center personnel in the ABC Child Care Program. They were used to gather data about the child care workforce in centers for the survey.
